December 2014

12/30/2014

While promoting his new film Selma, actor Tim Roth, who played the chimpanzee warrior Thade in Tim Burton's 2001 take on Planet of the Apes, offered his feelings about that film's climax which revealed the monument to the so-called Aperaham Lincoln. Said Roth to Cinemablend, "I think it was he took over, he took control. [Laughs] I think the idea was when they shunted in time that way, he was the President of the Planet of the Apes. [Laughs] Brilliant, I thought. It’s crazy stuff. I liked it. I had a good time making it. It was in the old style. It wasn’t too much CG trickery."

12/05/2014

JoBlo.com posted an interview with director Matt Reeves regarding the Planet of the Apes franchise. At one point he discusses the third Apes film scheduled for 2016 and his thoughts on possibly remaking the 1968 original. "Mark Bomback and I are working on the next story, and I have to say given the trajectory of how [Caesar's] arc has gone from the first movie through Dawn so far, what is so exciting to us is that this is sort of his biggest arc yet. We are going to take him to places that test him in a way that is more painful, and in ways that he has never been tested before. [We will] really test his leadership, and more than that his heart and soul. There are ways in which the experience he had with Koba in the last film, really create a context in this story that is going to be, in a way, his greatest challenge yet. We are very excited about it you know.